Chapter 28 Sherlock

  I looked at the entrance of our house and it was a ghostly yasha!

  No need for me to help, Guǐyèxiā got up by itself with a single jump.

  "What are you doing down here?" I looked at him and saw that he was carrying a string of unused hand grenades on his back, and secretly thought that the explosion was probably done by him.

  Oni no Yaiba shook off the dust on his head and looked at me with a glance, asking out of nowhere: "Did that person run away?"

  He said with a faint tone, "I know what you're going to ask. The previous explosion was done by me, I went back to the original room and took all the heavy weapons from the coffin, Cai Lingyu and others were not my match for strong firepower. But at the critical moment of confrontation, I heard a string of ringing sounds, and then we fell asleep."

  "The stone on Lao Fu's body is also gone." The old man's face looked very bad, whoever was defeated twice in a row, his confidence must be extremely frustrated.

  "Cai Lingyu and Xie Laosan, are they also down there?" I hastily asked. Gui Yexia said: "I didn't look carefully, but they should all be there. Their physical condition is a bit worse, not as fast as me and Shi Laowu."

  "Liu Huang locked you down there, what is he doing?" I became suspicious. Oniyasha looked puzzled: "That person is called Liu Huang, but there are no locks here, it doesn't seem like he wants to lock us up. It's more like he wants us to see something."

  At this time, the old corpse 'inserted' his mouth and said: "You see this room, there is no furniture at all, but the edge of this 'hole' has signs of decay, it's clear that this 'hole' was not newly opened. It means that the entrance to the lower cabin existed on the Golden Flower Wheel from the very beginning."

  Oniichan handed me a flashlight and gave me a meaningful look: "You go down and take a good look."

  "You've always treated me as a cannon fodder for scouting!"

  "Isn't it?" Oni no Yaiba scratched his head, seemingly puzzled that I didn't have any self-awareness in this regard.

  I brought Xu Lai and Nie Kun over to make him understand that this is a different time, and I have helpers. But what made me angry was that Xu Lai and Nie Kun, those two "mixed" balls, saw Gui Ye Jia's equipment and immediately went up to fawn on him, flattering him as a young hero and so on. I was speechless.

  Sherlock was still sober and reminded aloud: "While Cai Lingyu and the others are not awake, let's kill them all!" Xu Lai and the others immediately cheered.

  I thought to myself, you guys are really brainless, and I said in a bad tone: "They're gone, can't you set sail?"

  One sentence made them all speechless and retreated.

  Next, I and Oni no Yaiba went down inside, he was holding a flashlight to explore.

  The cabin was too low, and I, at 1.8 meters tall, had to crouch down and walk carefully. After just a few steps, I stepped on the arm of a sailor, who let out a loud "ah" as he woke up. The sailor opened his eyes to see the beam of light from the flashlight shining towards him, and before he could say anything, a Colt revolver was stuffed into his mouth, its cold barrel gleaming in the darkness.

  "Shut up and get on!" I threatened in a low voice, the latter's eyes filled with terror as he was pushed by Guī Yè Jiǎo and tied up by Xú Lài and others.

  Next we caught ten more sailors, including Second Mate Zhang Jiao.

  We continued deeper into the hold.

  "Look, there are many wooden barrels here." The flashlight shone on several one-meter-high oak barrels not far away, with sealing strips on top. We walked in and took a look, and the words "National Government's Top Secret Archives" were written on the sealing strip.

  I exchanged a surprised glance with Oni, and it turned out that the Kinwa-maru was still hiding this secret cargo. Roughly counting, there were about twenty or thirty barrels, which were specially hidden in this concealed hold, and must be extremely valuable. It's likely that these things are the real goods that the Kokumin Seifu wants to transport on the Kinwa-maru, more precious than gold.

  I couldn't wait to open it and see what earth-shattering secrets were hidden inside. Since it was marked as a top-secret document, it must be something that couldn't be shown to the public, perhaps recording many dirty secrets within the Nationalist Party, such as whether Song Jiaoren was killed by Chiang Kai-shek or not. Of course, it's also possible that it was just Chiang Kai-shek's own "private" things, such as love letters written to Soong Mei-ling, or the truth about Chiang Kai-shek's infertility in his later years.

  Everyone has a voyeuristic desire, especially when they see something that no one else can see. The sense of accomplishment is unparalleled. I touched the oak barrel and suddenly found a line of small words "Number 568917" at the bottom.

  There are other barrels too.

  "Wait and see, let's catch those people first." Oni no Yaiba reminded me, without waiting for my response, he suddenly pointed his gun hand back and laughed: "You're not as good as me at sneak attacks from behind!"

  I was stunned, and saw the oni yasha swing his flashlight back, a man holding a dagger stood behind him with a pale face, a gun pointed at his belly.

  "Thanks, Old Three!" I was shocked, this guy had been awake for a long time and actually wanted to launch a sneak attack on us.

  "Damn, almost fell for this guy's trick again." I'd have loved to shoot this 'bastard' dead, but under the special care of Gui Ye Jia and me, Xie Lao San was escorted by us to the upper floor. As soon as he poked his head out, a storm of fierce punches rained down on him like a hurricane, and I just blinked my eyes, Xie Lao San had already been beaten to the point where even his own mother wouldn't recognize him.

  I and Oni no Ya again searched around, woke up other sailors one by one who were in a state of panic, and caught them.

  "Cai Lingyu!" I recognized the sleeping beauty lying in front of me at a glance, and saw that her plump chest was rising and falling, revealing a proud curve. To be honest, I didn't even want to wake her up.

  "Hmph, Dongzi's 'Spring' has arrived." Jīnyèxiā sneered.

  I glared at him and ignored him. Taking a deep breath, I stretched out my hand and gently patted Cai Lingyu's smooth face, but there was no response. I was puzzled, could she be sleeping too soundly? The force in my hand increased unintentionally, but she still didn't wake up, and I didn't dare to increase the force any further, or else it would be considered 'abuse'. I quickly pinched her Renzhong acupoint again, but there was still no reaction.

  "Did she die from sleep?" I wondered. However, no matter what, Ghost Night and I worked together to carry her up. To be honest, holding Cai Lingyu's body still made me quite "excited", but her muscles were very delicate, yet lacked that legendary softness and fragrance.

  I saw that the room was already packed with people, about twenty of them, all disarmed and being guarded by Xu Lai and Nie Kun. The two would beat up Xie Laosan as a warning to anyone who didn't behave. Sherlock tossed me a pack of cigarettes and said with a smile: "Confiscated from the enemy, Meili brand!" I hastily put it in my pocket, then Sherlock ran off to search for rope in other rooms.

  I and Oni returned downstairs, at this time, the flashlight shone a circle, and in the depths, another man was found lying down.

  "This is the last one." I walked over and took a look, feeling strange. This man was so pitiful, he was the only one not with the others, and had been stripped of his clothes, lying on the ground. His skin was very white, and his hair was blond, probably a lucky British person who escaped disaster.

  "Devil, let me see who you are." I flipped the foreigner over and shone a strong beam of light from my flashlight directly onto his face.

  For just one second, both Inuyasha and I were stunned. We clearly heard the heavy breathing coming from each other's noses.

  The foreigner in front of me who is sleeping soundly actually looks exactly like Sherlock!

  Bang! I directly slapped "Sherlock" awake with a loud slap and asked: "Who are you?"

  That person was dazed and confused, muttering in English.

  Crack! Another ear slapper.

  "Speak plainly!" I demanded fiercely. The man hastily replied: "Sherlock Ponton."

  I was really surprised: "Don't tell me you have another twin brother?" Oni no Yaiba directly cut me off: "Twins can't possibly be called the same name!"

  I thought of this reason and wondered: "If that person is Sherlock, then who is the one outside?" As soon as I finished speaking, my back was soaked with cold sweat.

  "Hurry up and go!" Oniyasha sensed the urgency of the situation, knocked out this Sherlock with a knife in his hand, and said to me: "No matter which one is real, take them both down and confront each other."

  I nodded in agreement and hastily rushed out.

  When I was extremely nervous, pretending to have found nothing and crawling out of the 'cave' entrance, I inadvertently took a look around and found that Sherlock had not returned yet. I and Guǐ Yè Jiǎo hastily hid behind the 'door', waiting for him to fall into our trap.

  "You two..." Xu Lai's words were not yet finished, I hastily made a silencing gesture, he immediately understood and shut his mouth, knowing something was up. I again gave him a look, he tacitly understood, continuing to pretend to interrogate the sailors as if nothing was wrong, while also kicking Xie Laosan twice.

  One minute and one second passed, Sherlock still didn't come back. I was getting a bit impatient, did he know that he had exposed himself?

  Half an hour later, there was still no sign of him. My heart sank, no wonder he, a lazy egg, volunteered to run outside to find the rope, he just ran away with it.

  Onimaru put away his gun and shook his head: "He won't be coming back."

  I helplessly sighed, now it's useless to think about which one is the real Sherlock.

  "What did you find out, Dongzi?" asked Sheng Lige.

  "A Sherlock." I left a sentence and went down into the 'cave' with Oniichan to bring up the real Sherlock.

  A Sherlock just like him appeared in front of Xu Lai and others, everyone was stunned.

  Someone brought a basin of cold water and splashed it on Sherlock's face. He opened his eyes in confusion, looking puzzled: "Where am I? Who are you? Ah, Captain Cai, how... Hmm, is that Vice-Captain Xie?" Suddenly, Sherlock realized he was stark naked, and quickly covered himself, staring at us with a terrified expression: "You didn't do anything to me, did you..."

  I held the dagger to his neck and interrogated him: "What was the last thing you did before you fainted?" Sherlock racked his brains, exerting great effort before saying: "I remember that when we first set sail, I went to the bow of the ship and chatted with a beautiful Chinese lady... uh, after returning to my room, I felt particularly sleepy, then fell asleep."

  "Did you fall asleep before or after dinner?" I asked immediately. Sherlock replied, "At that time, I hadn't had dinner yet."

  My eyes narrowed suddenly.